Whewell’s Gazette
Your weekly digest of all the best of
Internet history of science, technology and medicine
Editor in Chief: The Ghost of William Whewell
Year 3, Volume #49
Monday 24 July 2017
EDITORIAL:
At least where I live, summer has disappeared in a deluge of biblical dimensions, so it’s time to curl up on the sofa with a hot cup of tea and the latest edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could recue from the floods over the last seven days.
New Editorial
For reasons that I can’t really disclose I had to withdraw the editorial that I posted here yesterday. What follows is a substitute editorial. The original editorial will be reposted in time either here or at The Renaissance Mathematicus.
The Internet has recently been indulging in a debate as to whether the British empire was a good thing and something to be proud of or not. I personally side with the minority of Brits who think it was not a very good thing and certainly nothing to be proud of and I am the son of a colonial family. However that is not a topic for this blog.
As part of this debate the historian David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) posted the following tweet:
“In my university, we teach our students not to write as if they, personally, are the British Empire. Because they’re not”
This is a principle that can be extended to numerous #histSTM topics and I stumbled across just such an example this morning on Twitter. A promoted tweet started with the following claim. “This country gave the world penicillin…” The rest of the tweet is irrelevant to what I wish to say and I won’t go into it here. The relevant point, going back to the essence of David Andress’ tweet is that ‘this country’ didn’t give anybody anything!
One group of researchers in one research institute recognised that the mould Penicillium chrysogenum possessed antibacterial properties and over a period of several years other medical researchers developed methods of using penicillin to cure specific ailments.
This is true of almost all #histSTM discoveries with the individuals and groups involved often crossing national boundaries. Even if the research is government funded discoveries are made by individuals and teams of researchers not countries and in the wider perspective are or should be the property of humanity.
In my opinion the attempt to into a nationalist tinge into the process of discovery is a negative one to be avoided as much as possible.
Quotes of the week:
“Aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes” – John D. Cook (@JohnDCook)
Glance at Twitter.
See that “Winnie the Pooh” is trending.
And for a flash of a flash of a second, think:
“Oh no! Winnie the Pooh died!” – Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755)
“History is about the probable, whereas historical fiction is about the possible. Or is this too tidy?” – Will Pooley (@willpooley)
“It’s an amazing privilege to talk about science on national media as we do, to put academics in the public eye is our duty” – Dr Adam Rutherford (@Adam Rutherford)
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history” – George Orwell
“I’ll say this about print books, the battery never runs low” – Liam Heneghan (@DublinSoil)
“Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest” – Petrarch (1304-1374)
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Point of teaching history is to teach critical thinking, not to teach a slant. Critical thinking is only a threat if your argument is crap” – Alex von Tunzelmann (@alexvtunzelmann)
“A physician … more even than the whole man – he must view the man in his world” – H Cushing (1869–1939)
Anniversaries of the Week:
The first moon landing was on 20 July 1969
Three astronauts in spacesuits without helmets sitting in front of a large photo of the Moon.
Left to right: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Sextant: To the Moon and Back: An Astronaut Sailor Leads the Nation on a Voyage of Discovery
National Archives: A Historic Phone Call
Science Museum: Final Apollo 11 Flight Plan
PRI: the women who made communication with outer space possible
Youtube: Vintage Space: Here’s What Downtime Looked Like Going to the Moon
Robert Hooke born 18 July 1635
Micrographia Title Page
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Making the indiscernible visible: Robert Hooke’s Micrographia
SciHi Blog: Robert Hooke and his Micrographia
Letters from Gondwana: The Geological Observations of Robert Hooke
RSC: On this day in Chemistry July 18th: Robert Hooke
Facebook: The Royal Society: Under the microscope: The life and works of Robert Hooke
Gilbert White born 18 July 1720
Gilbert White’s house, The Wakes, now a museum, viewed from the back gardens, taken in September 2010
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Gilbert White
SciHi Blog: Gilbert White’s Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
Richard Owen born 20 July 1804
Sir Richard Owen by Henry William Pickersgill, oil on canvas, circa 1845 NPG
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Richard Owen
The Grandeur of Life: 43. Owen, Richard (1804–1892)
Letters from Gondwana: Owen, Dickens and the ‘Invention’ of Dinosaurs
Forbes: The Man Who Named the Dinosaurs also Debunked Tales of Sea Serpents
Jean Picard born 21 July 1620
Jean Picard Artist unknown
The Renaissance Mathematicus: Getting the measure of the earth
SciHi Blog: Jean Picard and his Love for Accuracy
Friedrich Bessel born 22 July 1784
Portrait of the German mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel by the Danish portrait painter Christian Albrecht Jensen
Source: Wikimedia Commons
SciHi Blog: Friedrich Bessel and the Distances of Stars
PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE:
lpi.usra.edu: Giuseppe Piazzi and the Discovery of Ceres
The Washington Post: The Test That Changed the World
AHF: Trinity Test Eyewitnesses
Dannen.com: Trinity Test, July 16, 1945, Eyewitness Accounts – Enrico Fermi
Dannen.com: A Petition to the President of the United States
Atlas Obscura: 5 Ancient Sites Built to Align with the Spring Equinox
Entrance to one of the Mnajdra temples. (Photo: Jennifer Morrow/CC BY-2.0
brainpickings: The World’s First Celestial Spectator Sport: Astronomer Maria Mitchell’s Stunning Account of the 1869 Total Solar Eclipse
NASA: Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
NASA: NASA Langley 100: A Storied Legacy, A Soaring Future
Voices of the Manhattan Project: David Bohm’s Interview
Physics Today: A look inside Feynman’s calculus notebook
Feynman was a meticulous notetaker. Credit: Melinda Baldwin
British Library: Untold lives blog: You were born when? The French Revolutionary Calendar
NASA: Profile of John Glen
arXiv.org: On the Earthshine depicted in Galileo’s watercolours of the Moon
AHF: Science Behind the Atom Bomb
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Jim Smith’s Interview
Gizmodo: NASA Considered an Inflatable Donut for a Space Habitat
Skeptoid: The Day I Met Dr. Edward Teller
AEON: The explosive tale of a spy, a ghost particle and a new physics
Carnegie Science: The Moon Needs No Introduction…Carnegie’s Lunar Surface Research History
Forbes: How the Moon Changed Galileo’s Life Forever
Academia: The Invention of the Southern Cross
Deep exposure of Crux, Coalsack Nebula, and IC 2944
AHF: Nuclearization in France: The Politics of Frédéric Joliot-Curie
SciHi Blog: Walter Schottky and the Image Potential Energy
NASA: Space Shuttle: STS–93 First space shuttle flight with a female commander, Eileen Collins
EXPLORATION and CARTOGRAPHY:
Osher Map Library: Online Exhibits
The New York Times: S. Allen Counter, Who Championed an Unsung Black Explorer, Dies at 73
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – Alexander Dallas Bache
Alexander Dallas Bache, second Superintendent of the US Coast Survey, and first President of the National Academy of Sciences.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian.com: Where to See Some of the World’s Oldest and Most Interesting Maps
Library of Congress: Worlds Revealed Geography & Maps: Places in Civil War History: The First Battle of Bull Run
Christie’s: Valuable Books and Manuscripts Including Cartography: DRAKE, Sir Francis (c.1540-1596) – [VAN SYPE, Nicola (fl. c.1580).] La heroike interprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck d’avoir cirquit toute la terre. [?Antwerp: c.1590]
SciHi Blog: Sir Edmund Hillary – Mountaineer, Explorer and Philanthropist
British Library: Medieval manuscripts blog: Matthew Paris and His Abbreviated Chronicle of England
Map of Britain, Cotton MS Claudius D VI/1 (formerly f. 12v of Cotton MS Claudius D VI)
Library of Congress: Collection: Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900
The Public Domain Review: Palacio’s Plan for Colossal Monument to Columbus (1890)
MEDICINE & HEALTH:
SciHi Blog: Joseph Goldberger’s Fight against Pellagra
Changing the face of Medicine: Dr. Katharine Boucet Sturgis
Shakespeare At Last!: Goat’s Dung, Mummified Flesh and Vomiting…This is what passed for state-of-the-art health care in Shakespeare’s day
HeadBox: The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner: Women took lead roles in the dawn of the NHS not men
Chest X-Ray in Sheffield in the 1950s
BlackPast.org: Contraband Hospital, 1862–1863: Health Care for the First Freed People
Civil War Medicine: Modern Medicine’s Civil War Legacy
Nursing Clio: Elizabeth Blackwell in the Digital World
AEON: Visiting your leg
Thomas Morris: If you can’t find a surgeon…
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: “Ready for Mischief” Dr. Mary Walker and her Service during the Civil War
Dr. Mary Walker, 1865. Photo by Matthew Brady. Courtesy of National Archives
NMHM: An Extraordinary Enterprise: Medical Effects of the Civil War
Mistaking Histories: IUD or not IUD? Did the Hippocratics invent the first intrauterine device?
Mistaking Histories: To be beside the seaside: cold water and menstruation
Mistaking Histories: I can forgive Gwyneth for the jade eggs and mugwort, but not for this rubbish about Hippocrates…
Effaced From History?: A ‘Spectacle’ of the Face: Eyewear in the Nineteenth Century
Early Modern Medicine: Mad Cats and Heavy Drinking
XIR194974 A Ward in the Hotel-Dieu, Paris, from ‘Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’, written and engraved by Paul Lacroix (engraving) (b/w photo) by French School, (16th century) (after); Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; Giraudon; French, out of copyright
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Blood Types in the College Collections
Nursing Clio: “Blossoms of Hope”: Our Cultural History of Pregnancy and Infant Loss and Grief
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: Private John Northrop Diary
AHF: Health Physics & Nuclear Medicine During the Manhattan Project
Quartz: A history of why the US is the only rich country without universal health care
Nursing Clio: Handmaids, Hospitals, and the Pageantry of the Newborn Nursery Window
Advances in the History of Psychology: New HHS: Brainwashing, Scientific Expertise and the Politics of Emotion, & More!
Thomas Morris: The case of the drunken Dutchman’s guts
Wellcome Collection: The Outsiders: The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
AMA Journal of Ethics: Framing Confusion: Dementia, Society, and History
The City Story: The History of Medicine at the Old Operating Theatre
Cambridge Core: Medical Experts and Agnotology in the Fumes Controversy of the Huelva Copper Mines (1888–1890)
Wellcome Collection: The Outsiders 6 Part series
Thomas Morris: The man whose intestines twinkled like stars
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING:
Sundail Farm: c.1842 Massive French Astronomical Skeleton Table Regulator with Remontoire and Quarter-Striking
Conciatore: Purpurine
Electric Generations: The Rays: A Fairy Story
Atlas Obscura: Sacramento Locomotive Works
Old Machine Press: Republic XP-69 Fighter
NASA History: Innovation at 100: Making the Modern Airplane
In 1938 Langley mounted the navy’s Brewster XF2A-1 Buffalo in the Full-Scale Tunnel for drag reduction studies.
Credits: Original NACA Photo (Circa-1938)
National Inventors: Hall of Fame
SciHi Blog: Mary Had a Little Lamb – Edison and the Phonograph
Atlas Obscura: Klotz Throwing Company
The Mary Rose: Why did the Mary Rose sink?
Smithsonian.com: The First Self-Cleaning Home Was Essentially a ‘Floor-to-Ceiling Dishwasher’
Motherboard: RIP Frances Gabe, Inventor of the Self-Cleaning House
Los Angeles Times/1979
The New York Times: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning House, Dies at 101
BBC future: The underground railway that became a secret wartime base
Academia: Imagining the thinking machine: Technological myths and the rise of Artificial Intelligence
Trips Into History: The Successes and Trials of Samuel Colt
The Public Domain Review: The History of Ink: Including its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography (1860)
SciHi Blog: Alberto Santos-Dumont – the Brazilian Father of Aviation
Santos-Dumont #5 rounding the Eiffel Tower during an earlier attempt to win the Deutsch Prize
The Public Domain Review: Inventing the Recording
Atlas Obscura: The Computer that Ran for School President
Science Museum: Section of first telegraph cable, 1837
National Railway Museum: The Victorians Railways: A Pop-Up Anthology from Journal of Victorian Culture
Smithsonian.com: Debunking the Mechanical Turk Helped Set Edgar Allan Poe on the Path to Mystery Writing
Atlas Obscura: Lincoln Tank Memorial
De Re Militari: Warfare and Firearms in Fifteenth Century Morocco, 1400–1492
Atlas Obscura: This Japanese Scroll Was Re-Printed a Million Times – 700 Years Before Gutenberg
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ruben Salazar’s Interview
Science Museum: Stephenson’s Rocket returns to Newcastle
Tedium: When Tech Hit Retail
The New Inquiry: Emma Allison, a ‘Lady Engineer’
Emma Allison was the engineer of a six horsepower Baxter steam engine
Discover Dartmouth: The Newcomen Engine New Coin Machine
SciHi Blog: Gaspard de Prony and the Prony Brake
SciHi Blog: Mark Weiser and his vision of Ubiquitous computing
SciHi Blog: It’s a computer! – The fabulous Commodore Amiga
SciHi Blog: Isaac Singer and the Sewing Machine
SciHi Blog: The Global Positioning System
EARTH & LIFE SCIENCES:
Forbes: Watch These 4,000-Year-Old First Nations Skeletons Come Back to Life
NICHE: A Postcard from China
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
The Public Domain Review: Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)
zsipublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com: The Scientists! In an Adventure with Pirates!
Vice: A Journey to the Centre of Modern Hollow Earth Theory
Two of the original illustrations by Edouard Riou in Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth.
NICHE: #EnvHist Daily
A Short History of Climate Change: A terribly big experiment – the story of Roger Revelle
A Short History of Climate Change: That hole in the ozone layer
A Short History of Climate Change: Back to the future – a brief history of the electric car
A Short History of Climate Change: It’s the 25th anniversary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change. Happy birthday!
Nautilus: The Fly in the Primordial Soup
UNDERWATER CITY: This “beehive” deposit has formed on the side of another structure in the Lost City, a large underwater site of mineral tubes, some as big as buildings, that emit alkaline fluid. University of Washington
Smithsonian.com: The Fierce T. Rex Was a Walker Not a Sprinter
NICHE: Walking Backwards with Bad Knees Through Land and History: Seven Lessons in Decolonizing
Peddling and Scaling God and Darwin: Geology and Genesis Unearthed
The Public Domain Review: Chirologia, or The Natural Language of the Hand (1644)
Fine Books and Collections: Humboldt’s Magnum Opus Exceeds Expectations at National Book Auctions
Linda Hall Library: Scientist of the Day – William Sharp Macleay
A portrait of William Sharp Macleay, British naturalist and philosopher.
NCSE: Famous Last Words, Part 1
The Atlantic: This Cave Holds a Spectacular Record of 5,000 Years of Tsunamis
SciHi Blog: George Shaw and the Platypus
CHEMISTRY:
SciHi Blog: Sir Frederick Abel and the Smokeless Gunpowder
Frederick Augustus Abel
META – HISTORIOGRAPHY, THEORY, RESOURCES and OTHER:
Times of Malta: little people contributing to big discoveries
Medieval Histories: German Scholars Plan to Update Manuscripta Mediaevalia
BSHS: Ambassadors: Domestic Biographies
Open Culture: How Aristotle Invented Computer Science
The Recipes Project: Vast and Bewildering: Early America at the Recipes Project
Metropolitan Science: Who’s that man? Introducing our avatar
History and Technology: Commercializing science: nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists as consultants, patentees, and entrepreneurs
PM: How the Humble Index Card Foresaw the Internet
Journal of Science Communication: Issue 03, Special Issue: History of Science Communication, 2017 Table of Contents
The New York Times: Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance
PBS Newshour: The Library of Congress opened its catalogs to the world. Here’s why it matters
The H-Word: How British anxiety about European advances created a scientific prize
The Royal Society’s Royal Medal, with its former president, Isaac Newton, on the reverse. The obverse carries a portrait of the monarch. Photograph: Royal Society
The Early Caribbean Digital Archive
Revue d’Histoire des Sciences (1/2017): Table of Contents
RTÉ News: DCU names three buildings after inspiring women scientists
Museum Next: Shaz Hussain on ‘diversity’ and changing the language we use in museums
The Renaissance Mathematicus: The West’s intellectual birthright!
ESOTERIC:
Conciatore: Crocus Martis
The many different alchemical symbols used to denote crocus martis.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Dublin Review of Books: The Ascent of Women
Los Angeles Review of Books: Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious
Science: Africa’s innovations often occur outside the formal sector, but it should still count as science
Hyperallergic: On the Origin of Emoji
Popular Science: Forgotten Science – S.D. Tucker
brainpickings: A Pioneering Scientist on Memory, the Value of Our Unremembered Work, and the Incalculable Sum Total of the Human Experience
Popular Science: Rebecca Nesbit – Four Way Interview
Undark: When Undark Was Lethal: A New Look at the ‘radium Girls’
Reviews in History: Understanding the Imaginary War: Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict, 1945–90
The Mission: 10,000 Hours With Claude Shannon: How A Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
Popular Science: Significant Figures – Ian Stewart
The Guardian: Growth and Form by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson review – centenary of a Darwin-challenging classic
brainpickings: Obsessiveness, Minimizing Obstacles, and How the Thrill of Accidental Discovery Redeems the Terror of Uncertainty
The Guardian: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney review – the flu pandemic that killed 50 million
NEW BOOKS:
Stanford University Press: One Blue Child
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Zaha Hadid Architects: Mathematics: The Winton gallery at the Science Museum shortlisted for “World Interior of the Year”
The Guardian: Paleoart: the strange history of dinosaurs in art – in pictures
Nature: History: Tracking down a doomed Arctic expedition
New Scientist: The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth
Imperial War Museum: Secret War
IET: Archives online exhibitions
Philly.com: Decay, rot on display at Chemical Heritage Museum
Environment & Society Portal: Virtual Exhibitions: The Northwest Passage: Myth Environment, and Resources
Circumpolar routes. The map shows the different shipping routes across the Arctic. Source: Arctic Council, “Circumpolar Routes,” Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment 2009 Report, available at arcticdata.is.
Tampa Bay History Center: The Florida-Cuba Connection 4 July 2017–28 January 2018
Osher Map Library: Online Exhibits: Local Boosters, Historians, and Engineers Map Antebellum Portland Maine
Musée « La Boverie » de Liège: La leçon d’Anatomie – 500 ans d’histoire de la médecine 21 Juni 2017–17 Septembre 2017
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker – Trailblazing global botanist and explorer
BBC News: Whaling’s ‘uncomfortable’ legacy
University of Otago Library: Special Collections Exhibitions: Intrepid Journeys: Travelling with the Hakluyt Society 16 June–8 September 2017
Musée Barrois, Bar-le-Duc: Inventer pour guérir. François Humbert (1776-1850), une aventure médicale meusienne 27 Mai–23 Septembre
Wellcome Collection: A museum of modern nature 22 June–8 October 2017
BBC News: Captain Cook Birthplace Museum reopens after revamp
Royal Museums Greenwich: Maritime Memories Machine Tour 8 June–27 August 2017
Bletchley Park: Bill Tutte: Mathematician + Codebreaker 15 May 2017–15 May 2019
Berwick Museum & Art Gallery: Bright Lights in the Borders 3 June–30 September 2017
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin’s final expedition 14 July 2017–7 January 2018
Medium: Biggest-ever display of fossil hominins opens
Garden Museum: Tradescant’s Orchard: A Celebration of Botanical Art: May–September 2017
Painting from the Tradescants’ Orchard
Union College, NY: Maps hold key to Adirondacks history in new exhibit runs till 29 September 2017
Cal Welch ’62 and his daughter, Caroline ’01, discuss new exhibit at the Kelly Adirondack Center – See more at: https://www.union.edu/news/stories/2017/05/maps-hold-key-to-adirondacks-history-in-new-exhibit.php#sthash.U5q1qh7d.dpuf
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Museum Collection: Explore highlights from our collection
Nursing Clio: War Art 100 Years Later: The “World War I and American Art” Exhibit and the Centenary of the Great War
The University of Manchester: Manchester Museum: Object Lessons
Le Devoir: Le Musée de la civilisation dévoile toutes les couleurs de la matière grise
The Australian: Hadron Collider show reveals art of science at Sydney Powerhouse Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich: Do the Ultimate Time Trail
National Railway Museum: National Railway Museum marks historic First World War centenary with new exhibition
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Digital Library: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Until Darwin: Maria Martin Bachman’s sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
Royal College of Physicians: “Anatomy as Art” Facsimile Display Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm
Hyperallergic: A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Guardian: Designers on acid: the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
Teylers Museum: De Lorentz Formule in Het Lorentz Lab 18 May 2017–18 May 2020
Wollaton Hall Nottingham: Dinosaurs of China 1 July–29 October 2017
Science Museum: The Festival of Britain – a meeting of science and art
U.S.News: New Kensington Museum Preserves Computing Relics
Sanofi Pasteur: The Legacy Project
The Recipes Project: Artifacts at an Exhibition: The Art and Science of Healing at the University of Michigan
Het Scheep Vaart Museum: Blaeu’s Wereld In Kaart 14 April–31 December 2017
Le Soleil: 400 ans de pharmacie
Royal Cornwall Museum: The Medicine Man – A Spotlight on Richard Lander March–September 2017
The Gibbes Museum of Art: Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas 12 May–24 September 2017
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Audubon: Drawn to Nature 1 April–30 July 2017
The Guardian: Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
Arizona State University: Rare ASU map collection reveals truths about history of American Southwest
Old Operating Theatre: Virtual Tour
Criminal Corpses: Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpses – Online Exhibition
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place 25 March–17 September 2017
Daguerreotype of J.D. Hooker by William Edward Kilburn, circa 1852
IET: Archives: Online Exhibitions
Oxford Today: Volcanoes – from catastrophe to the sublime
The British Museum: Where the Thunderbird lives: cultural resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America 23 February–27 August 2017
American Museum of Natural History: Mummies Opens Now
Biodiversity Library Exhibition: Early Women in Science
Maria Emma Gray (1787–1876), was an English conchologist and algologist
SD Times: Computer History Museum debuts Make Software exhibit
Harvard Map Collection: Exhibition Analysis 1: Commemorative and Humanitarian Disasters
University of Southern Maine: Osher Map Library to celebrate new exhibition “To Conquer or Submit? American views the Great War” 100 years after U.S. involvement in WWI
St John’s College: Under the Knife at St John’s: New exhibition showcases a medical history of disease and dissection
Boston Public Library: Exhibition: Regions and Seasons: Mapping Climate through History 4 March–27 August 2017
Osher Map Library: The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities
Adler Planetarium: Chasing Eclipses Opening 25 March 2017
Hyperallergic: When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
Advances in the History of Psychology: New Book & Touring Exhibit on Ramón y Cajal: The Beautiful Brain
The Sydney Morning Herald: Beauty in Science
Palaeo Manchester: Object Lessons exhibition: – Opens 20 May 2017
Brendel plant models.
Image courtesy of Rosamond Purcell
Linda Hall Library: Connecting the Dots: The Science of CSI 16 March–1 September 2017
The Orange County Register: CSUF’s Pollak Library presents a special program and exhibit on the art of map making
Djournal.com: 200 years of statehood: Ole Miss puts history on display for bicentennial
American Museum of Natural History: Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library
Daily Titan: New CSUF exhibit maps out California’s history
Stedelijk Studies: Vestiges of 125,660 Specimens of Natural History
heritage.utah.gov: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps Opens: 27 January 2017
Colonizing Animals: Historical Pose-abilities of Colonial Photography
Royal Museums Greenwich: Endeavour galleries: Launches 2018
Hyperallergic: When Art Was the Scientist’s Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Frog dissection illustration from the book “Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium…(Natural history of the native frogs…)” from 1758 (© AMNH\D. Finnin)
Orpiment: Prehistoric Animals: A series of illustrations by David Roland
Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg: 19 Oktober 2017 – 28 Februar 2018: Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Frühling/Sommer 2018: Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald
ICE: ICE Bridge Engineering exhibition
AHF: Los Alomos History Museum Reopens
Linda Hall Library: Online Exhibition: Ice Victorian Romance
Utah Capitol Building: Utah Dawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps 27 January–Late Summer 2017
BHL: Poetic Botany: A Digital Exhibition Celebrating the History of Botany
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Bilderwelten: Aufbruch zu Neuen Ufern: Mitteleuropäische Buchmalerei 1400–1540
Science Museum: Mathematics – The Winton Gallery
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse: Maria Merian’s Butterflies 17 March–23 July 2017
Harvard Gazette: The story of Edwin Land
The National Museum of Computing: 1950’s celebrity robot goes on world tour
Causway Coast Community: County Antrim adventurer’s royal maps will graphically outline history
Bradbury Science Museum: Fifty years of nuclear safeguards
Cambridge Digital Library: Browse our collections: Curious Objects
Leek Post & Times: Mary A Blagg the Cheadle Astronomer honoured at Cheadle Discovery Centre exhibition
The Arctic Journal: Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
past@present: Women in Science: The Stories Are All Around Us
Exhibition open 15 September 2016 through Summer 2017
Poetic Botany: Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World
Gallica Rose
American Museum of Natural History: Opulent Oceans
Historical Medical Library: Online Exhibition: Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Museum of Science and Industry: Meet Baby Meet Baby Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday
Natural History Museum: Bauer Brothers art exhibition Runs till 26 February 2017
Science Museum: Information Age
Science Museum: Robots
Science Museum: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph
Science Museum: Einstein’s Legacy
Science Museum: Journeys Through Medicine
Science Museum: Cosmos & Culture
Science Museum: Challenge of Materials
Science Museum: The Clockmakers’ Museum
Science Museum: Making the Modern World
Science Museum: Flight
Science Museum: Exploring Space
Science Museum: Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
Royal College of Physicians: ‘a cabinet of rarities’: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne 30 January–27 July 2017
Ottawa Insider: Improved Science & Tech Museum Opening November 2017
THEATRE, OPERA AND FILMS:
The Map Room: A Turkish Piri Reis Documentary is Coming
Variety: Paramount, Lorne Michaels Developing Autism Book ‘Neurotribes’ as Movie
BBC News: Britain’s great explorations now online
PBS: American Experience: Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species…us.
Youtube: Kepler’s Trial
Gielgud Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Booking to 03 June 2017
The Regal Theatre: The Trials of Galileo International Tour March 2014–December 2017
EVENTS:
The National Archives: PAST Introduction to Archival Research 12 October 2017
NYAM: Lecture Series: Who Controls Women’s Health? A Century of Struggle 22 August, 12 September, 5 October 2017
BSHS: Events at the Museum of the History of Science Oxford July–September 2017
NYAM: Upcoming Events
NYAM: Talk: Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th Century NYC 22 August 2017
NYAM: Summer & Fall 2017 Catalog of Events
Royal Museums Greenwich: One-day course: Sir John Franklin’s Artic exploration 25 July and 21 October 2017
Cardiff Naturalist Society: Cardiff Naturalist Society marks 150th Anniversary with a series of fascinating events
CHF: History Lab: Fiction and the Future 12 August 2017
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Fashionable Medicine: syphilis, Spas and Melancholy 8-12 August 2017
Sea Trek: Cruise: In Search of Wallace and His Living Treasures with Dr. George Beccaloni 13–24 January 2018 $$$
Notches: Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure in Roanoke, Virginia
Discover Medical London: London’s Medical Cabinets of Curiosity
New Scientist Discovery: The Science of the Renaissance: 8 Day Tour Departure: 2 November 2017 £££
Morbid Anatomy Museum: Events
Royal College of Physicians: Upcoming Events
The Warburg Institute: Maps and Society Lectures 26th Series Programme 2016–2017
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester: Engine Demonstration
The National Museum of Computing: Guided Tours
Gresham College: Future Lectures (some #histSTM)
Glasgow: Science on the Streets – Free Walking Tour
PAINTING OF THE WEEK:
TELEVISION:
SLIDE SHOW:
VIDEOS:
Youtube: The Endless Knot: Potatoes in China: The Endnotes
Gresham College: Observing the Dark Ages
Youtube: Armstrong Flight Research Center
Youtube: AP: First Polaris Fired From Submerged U-Boat
Youtube: The Anthropocene: The age of mankind – (VPRO documentary – 2017)
Youtube: big think: Physics in the Days of Einstein and Feynman – Freeman Dyson
Youtube: Sképseis: The Scientific Method – Richard Feynman
RADIO & PODCASTS:
npr: The Total Eclipse of 1878
National Museum of Civil War Medicine: Letterman’s Legacy
Yale Books Unbound: Ep. 33 – Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
WNYC: The Man Who Brought Us Code
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: The Brain
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Western University London, Ontario: Women Intellectuals in 18th Century Germany 20-21 October 2017
BSHS: Call for nominations for the 2017 BSHM Neuman Prize
Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris: Actualités et appels à contribution: Actualités et appels à contribution: Journées d’études – Éditer l’histoire des sciences (France, XXème siècle) 14 et 15 septembre 2017
The Open University: CfP: Conference: Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places 23 February 2018
University of Leeds: CfP: Get Real! Realism as a goal for the sciences and for HPS 19–20 September 2017
O Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical da Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Abertas as inscrições para o workshop ‘História da Medicina Tropical’ 14 e 15 de dezembro de 2017
The Science Museum: Workshop: The British Post Office in the Telecommunications Era 31 August 2017
Le premier numéro de la revue Doc.Eu: Appel à contributions: Représentations du corps dans les sciences humaines et sociales Réception de l’article : 14 août 2017 au plus tard
Notches: CfP: Transgender Histories
BMJ Medical Humanities: CfP: Special Issue: Pain and its Pardoxes Deadline 1 August 2017
Intellect Journals: CfP: Journal of Science & Popular Culture
Ordered Universe: Publications
Toronto, Ontario: Preliminary Program: HSS Annual Meeting 9–12 November 2017
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: CfP: Cannabis: Global Histories 19–20 April 2018 Deadline 15 January 2018
Societate și Politică: CfP: Rewrite Conflicts: The Role of Losers, Heretics, and Outsiders in the History of Medicine Deadline 15 December 2017
University of Exeter: Symposium: Medical Practice in Early Modern Britain in Comparative Perspective 4–6 September 2017
BPS: A BPS Flagship Event: Women in Psychology: From Invisibility to Influence 19 October 2017
ESA: History of Europe in space: Call for Contributions: ESA History Project Deadline 30 July 2017
University of Düsseldorf: CfP: The Generalized Theory of Evolution 31 January–3 February 2018
BJHP: CfP: Special Issue: Women and the History of Philosophy Deadline 31 January 2018
The American University of Paris: Appel à communications: Conférence internationale pluridisciplinaire d’histoire de la sexologie: Sexologies et théories de la sexualité. Traduction, appropriation, problématisation, médicalisation 30-31 Octobre 2017 Soumission des propositions 15 Juillet 2017
Ecole des Mines Paris Tech: Appel à communications: Techno*Care / Les technologies du « care » en santé 12 décembre 2017 avant le 14 juillet 2017
UCL Health Humanities Centre: Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies 8 July 2017
Numéro de la revue Itinéraires 2018-2: Appel à articles: Le merveilleux scientifique en spectacle (1850-1940) Date limite de réception des propositions : 14 juillet 2017
BSHS: Literary Agents Seek History of Science Authors
King’s University College London, Ontario: CSTHA: Appel à communiquer: Innovation ou aberration? Les significations historiques de l’échec scientifique et technologique 3–5 November 2017 Date limite: 30 juin 2017
Rice University: CfP: Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery 23–24 February 2018 Deadline 15 September 2017
Early Modern Low Countries: Call for Articles: A multidisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the study of the early modern Low Countries
Pittsburgh, PA: CfP: 2018 NEMLA Conference: (Im)possible Bodies: Spaces and the Body in Early Modern Europe Deadline 29 September 2017
Unsettling Scientific Stories: Conference: Imagining the History of the Future 27–29 March 2018
University of Oxford: CfP: Conference: The Human Body and World War II 23–24 March 2018 Deadline 1 October 2017
University of Padua: CfP: ESA History Conference 23–24 November 2017 Deadline 30 July 2017
The Historic Dockyard, Chatham: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
Trivent Publishing Series: History and Archaeology: Call for Contributions: Same Bodies, Different Women: Witches, Whores, and Handicapped
University of Kent: History of Medicine and Health – MA
Lady Science: Seeking Writers for Technological Memoir Special Series
University of York: Translating Medicine in the Pre-Modern World c. 1350–1800: A new collaborative project to be kickstarted with two conferences
International History of Cartography: Future Venues: 27th Conference Belo Horizonte, Brazil 9-14 July 2017 28th Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands 14-19 July 2019
University of Leeds: Call of Participants: Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Medical Humanities Research Workshop for PGRs 7 September 2017
University of Greenwich: The State of Maritime Research 9 September 2017
University of Turku: CfP: Interdisciplinary Conference: Re-imagining the Christian Body 2-3 November 2017
Palgrave Communications: CfP (Special Issue): Socioeconomic Factors and Mental Health: Past and Present
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London: CfP: Controlling ‘Unseen’ Contagion: Disease, citizenship and mobility
Christ Church, University of Oxford: Interdisciplinary Symposium: Past and Present: Narratives of Progress and Decline in Nineteenth-Century 19 March 2018
NICHE: Seed2: Call for Pitches: New Research in Environmental History
Utrecht University: CfP: Funding bodies and late modern science 30 November–1 December 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
Uppsaala University: CfP: Workshop: Vaccines: Values, Present and Past 23–24 November 2017 Deadline 9 June 2017
Columbia University: The Center for Science and Society: Science and Art Events in New York City
Johns Hopkins University: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 5 June 2017
Amsterdam: CfP: Materia Medica on the Move II 4–6 October 2017 Deadline 19 June 2017
University of Trondheim: The 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–1 September 2017
Belo Horizonte: International Conference for the History of Cartography Programme 9–14 July 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environmental Conference 2017 29–30 September 2017
Philadelphia Pennsylvania: CfP: Measure, Model, Mix: Computer as Instrument 2017 SIGCIS Conference 29 October 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Society of Architectural Historians, Saint Paul, Minnesota: CfP: A Matter of Life and Death: Spaces for Healing in the Premodern Era 18–22 April 2018 Deadline 15 June 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology: CfP: Technologies of Frankenstein 1818–2018 7–9 March 2018
University of Greenwich: CfP: The State of Maritime History Research 9 September 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité: Appel à communications: Monde du sport, monde de la santé : quelles relations, quels croisements? 16 et 17 novembre 2017 au plus tard le 3 juillet 2017
Uppsala University: Conference: CfP: Making It Up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice 12–14 April 2018 Deadline 15 May 2017
Edinburgh: CfP: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
Tsinghua University: Symposium: Frontier in the Philosophy of Specific Sciences 19–20 August 2017
Johns Hopkins University: CfP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine 13–14 October 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: CfP: International Symposium: Building the Scottish Diaspora 17–18 November 2017 Deadline 24 July 2017
University of Sevilla: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical questions 18–20 September 2017
Harvard University: CfP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environment 29–30 September 2017 Deadline 15 June 2017
University of Cambridge: CfP: Histories of Anthropology: Transforming Knowledge and Power (1870–1970)
Remedia: CfP: Themed Series: Managing Women’s Health
Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris: Appel à communications: L’Oeil du XIXe siècle 26-29 mars 2018
University of Edinburgh: CfP: Conference: Pamphleteering Culture, 1558–1702 30 September 2017 Deadline 30 June 2017
University of Montréal: Conference: Early Modern ‘Transformissions’ Linguistic, material, and cultural translation in England and France (c.1470–1660) 5-7 July 2017
Libori Summer School 2017: Émilie du Châtelet on Matter, Bodies, Forces, and Motion Part II 23–28 July 2017 Deadline 15 July 2017
Open University of the Netherlands: CfP: The Icon as Cultural Model: Past, Present and Future 23–26 January 2018 Deadline 1 July 2017
TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam: CfP: EAHN: The Tools of the Architect 22–24 November 2017 Deadline 15 May 2017
Hakluyt Society Blog: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
Rutgers University: CfP: Workshop: Method and Analysis of Syriac texts
University of Oxford: The Bountiful Sea Conference: Fish processing and consumption in Mediterranean antiquity 6–8 September 2017
Academia: Scientiae 2017 Programme
St Anne’s College, Oxford: Constructing Scientific Communities: Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars for Trinity Term 2017
Insitute of Historical Research: School of Advanced Study, University of London: Food History
University of Sevilla, Institute of Mathematics: CfP: Workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics in the Newtonian Age: historical and philosophical question 18-20 Sept. 2017
University of London: Institute of Historical Research: CfP: The Hakluyt Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017 Deadline 30 April 2017
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde: CfP: Understanding the Intersection of Alcoholism, Stigma, and Disability: Past and Present 1–2 March 2018 Deadline 3 July 2017
University of Kent: CfP: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2017: Trading Companies and Travel Literature 11–12 September 2017
APS: 2017 History of Physics Essay Contest Deadline 1 September 2017
SHMCNG, Archives départementales Nîmes: Appel à communications: Hygiène et santé en Bas-Languedoc oriental du XVIIIe siècle aux lendemains du premier conflit mondial la fin septembre 2017
Madison Wisconsin: Conference: CfP: Book History and Digital Humanities 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 15 April 2017
EUI – History of Science: #BSHSPG2017 programme is out
Royal Air Force Museum: Conference: Air Power in an Age of Uncertainty 29 September 2017
Manchester Medieval Society: New Seminar Series: Connecting ‘Medieval’ Worlds
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague: Conference: Scientists and “Third World Countries” in the 1960s to 1980s 23–24 November 2017
Libori Summer School: Émilie Du Châtelet: Matter, Bodies, Forces, Motion 23–28 July 2017
Université de Genève: Appel à communication: Produire du nouveau ? Arts – Techniques – Sciences en Europe (1400-1900) 23–25 novembre 2017 avant le 15 mars 2017
University of Bern: Conference: Thinking about Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity 13–15 September 2017
University of Colorado in Boulder: CfP: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science 13–15 October 2017 Deadline 1 June 2017
Philosophia Scientiae: Journal CfP
Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh: CfP: British Society for the History of Medicine Congress 13–16 September 2017 Deadline 31 May 2017
Sheraton City Centre, Toronto: CfP: History of Science Society (HSS) 2017 Conference 19–121 November 2017 Deadline 3 April 2017
NYAM: Public Programs
New College, Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Conference: Borders and Technology 7–10 September 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Workshops on Early Modern Bodies and Cultures of Imperialism November 2017 Deadline 30 March 2017
New College, University of Oxford: CfP: Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 18–19 September 2017 Deadline 1 April 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile: Conference: KNOWLEDGE/CULTURE/ECOLOGIES – KCE2017 15–18 November 2017
Notches: CfP: Histories of Sex and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe
University of Göttingen: Summer School: The Material Culture of Exploration and Academic Travel 1700–1900 24–29 July 2017
Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives: Accepting Proposals from Early Career Historian
CHF: The Decay Project: Call for Entries
Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre, Zeist: Call for Applications: TransPositions Summer School 2017: Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise 21–25 August 2017
Université McGill, Montréal: 85e congrès de l’ACFAS: Appel à communications: Les infirmières de la folie. Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone
University of Manchester: CHSTM seminar series
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf: Vortrags- und Sektionsanmeldungen für die erste Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft in Münster vom 22.-24. September 2017: Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikreflexion auf dem Prüfstand: Historische und aktuelle Herausforderungen
IUHMSP, Lausanne: Séminaire de recherche en histoire et études sociales de la médecine, de la santé, et des sciences du vivant: Semestre de printemps 2017
University of Münster, Germany: CfP: Contemplating Science, Medicine, and Technology: Past and Present Challenges 22–24 September 2017 Deadline 1 March 2017
American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting Boston MA 18-21 November 2017 CfP: Western Esotericism Unit
Université McGill, Montréal: Appel à contribution: Les infirmières de la folie: Histoire et évolution des soins infirmiers en psychiatrie au sein de l’espace francophone 8 et 9 mai 2017 avant le 20 février 2017
BSHS: Themes: Call for Proposals
IRSPUM, Montréal: La santé en débat: Programme de l’Hiver 2017
The Collation: Announcing a New Folger Fellowship in Honor of Margaret Hannay
SHOT 2017: CfP. Thinking with Ann Johnson Philadelphia 26–29 October 2017
NACBS Denver: CfP: Early Modern History Workshop: Bodies Corporeal and Rhetorical 3–5 November 2017 Deadline 3 March 2017
The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library: Teacher Workshop: Mapping a New World: Places of Colonization and Conflict in 17th-Century New England 9–14 July 2017 National Participants 23–28 July 2017 Commuting Participants Applications Deadline 1 March 2017
Cornell University: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Spring 2017
BNF/Université Paris-Descartes-USPC: Colloque international: Appel à communications: Alfred Binet, expérimentateur. Entre archives de la psychologie et éducation physique 12–13 Octobre 2017 Avant le 31 janvier 2017
Société de Démographie Historique, Centre Roland Mousnier, Paris: Appel à communications: Le sang. Famille, parenté, transmission du Moyen Âge à nos jours 23–24 novembre 2017 Date limite de l’appel : 15 janvier 2017
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: CfP: “IX International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Alexander von Humboldt and Travellers Through Yucatan”, 19–24 November 2018 Deadline 29 May 2017
Centre for Global Health Histories, Department of History, University of York: Call for applications: William Bynum Essay Prize (Medical History)
University of California, Berkeley: 2017 4S Conference Proposal Submission Dates
Historiens de la santé: CfP: Edited Collection: Medicine and What it Means to be Human
University of Utrecht: CfP: Workshop: Histories of Measurement and Self-making 29–30 June 2017 Deadline 6 January 2017
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: CfP:Workshop: Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation 16-17August 2017
The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study: CfP: Mapping the Territory: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1830 Two Conferences Berne 14–16 September 2017 Göttingen 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 20 January 2017
Manchester Conference Centre: CfP: Genealogies of Knowledge I: Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space 7–9 December 2017 Deadline 15 February 2017
Septièmes journées internationales d’études médiévales des Jeunes Chercheurs Médiévistes de l’Université de Genève & de la Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale: Appel à communications: Vivre et mourir au Moyen Âge 9-10 mars 2017 avant le 1er décembre 2016
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
The History of Modern Biomedicine: CfP: Frontiers in Pharmacology: Pharmaceutical innovation after World War II: from rational drug discovery to biopharmaceuticals
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
University of Warwick: CfP: Cultures of Exclusion in the Early Modern World: Enemies and Strangers, 1600–1800
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Workshop: Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction 27 March–1 April 2017 Deadline 27 November 2017
UCL: STS: Seminar Series Spring 2017
Erasmus University Rotterdam: CfP: Fourth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
University of Exeter: EPSA 17: CfP: The Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 6-9 September 2017 Deadline 5 January 2017
University of Kiel: CfP: 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX) 6–12 August 2017: Asian Medicines: Encounters, Translations and Transformations Deadline 1 November 2016
‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest: Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH): CfP: The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health 30 August-2 September 2017 Deadline 1 January 2017
BSHS: University College London: 8th International Conference for the European Society for the History of Science: Unity and Disunity 15–17 September 2018
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: CfP: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Maritime History and Culture Seminar 2016–17
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: Applications to Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science 2017
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London: The Forum for European Philosophy Women in Science Forthcoming Events
Royal Museums Greenwich: CfP: Conference: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and Exploration 14–15 September 2017
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: CFP: 11th International Conference on the History of Chemistry 29 August–2 September 2017
University of Edinburgh: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar Series 2016/17
Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies: CfP: Religious and/or Medicinal definitions of Otherness Deadline 23 September 2016
Institut Pasteur de Lille: Conférences d’histoire de la médecine de Lille Programme des conférences 2016 – 2017
Archives and Records: CfP: Special issue on ‘Archives and Museums’, spring 2018
King’s College London: CHoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
Royal Museums Greenwich: AHRC Funded Research Network Project: Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World
University of Pittsburgh: Center for Philosophy of Science 57th Annual Lecture Series 2016–17
ICHST “2017: Symposium Proposals Approved by IPC
University of Durham: Conference: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism? 5–7 August 2017
Berlin –Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Project: Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
Centre de Russie pour la Science et la Culture, Paris: Appel à communications: “L’Homme dans le monde de l’incertitude. Méthodologie de la cognition culturelle et historique”. Colloque international pour le 120e anniversaire de la naissance de Lev Vygotsky 13 octobre 2016
Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science: Upcoming Events
Everything Early Modern Women: CfP: The Body and Spiritual Experience: 1500–1700 (RSA 2017)
University of Ghent: Program Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science 2016–2017
Transversal: CfP: Special Issue on Historiography of Medicine Deadline 31 July 2017 Publication December 2017
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: 57th Annual Program 2016–2017
Kraków Poland: CfP. 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 20-22 September 2017
Philadelphia, PA: RBS Mellon Conference: CfP: Resembling Science: The Unruly Object across the Disciplines 12–15 October 2017
University of Ghent: Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2016–2017
Friends of Birmingham Museums and Arts Gallery (BMAG): Looking for speakers for their Science Shorts series in March, June, September and December 2017
Ryerson University (Toronto): Appel à communications: Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine: L’épopée d’une histoire: 150 ans vers l’avenir 27–29 mai 2017
King’s College London: ChoSTM Seminar Programme 2016–2017
LOOKING FOR WORK:
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart: Promotionsstipendium „Erfahrungen von Patienten im sozialistischen Gesundheitswesen der Tschechoslowakei oder Polens oder Ungarns nach 1945“ Deadline 15 September 2017
Harvard University: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the History of Modern American Medicine Deadline 16 October 2017
Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich: Environment & Society Portal Research Associate (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) Deadline 8 September 2017
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Professor/reader in Health and Wellbeing Across Time and Place
University of Toronto: Assistant Professor – Science and Technology Studies
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